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Landline not working due to NBN changeover
Edit: After 4 Days of no incoming calls, our phones are finally taking calls again. We just upgraded our internet to an NBN conection, which is great! …except now our phones don’t work.
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Why your Windows 10 computer has been slow this week
You might have noticed your Windows 10 computer running slow this week. Don’t worry – it was for a good reason!
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Yet another local person falls victim to a scamming epidemic this month
Warragul resident “Fred W” has given us permission to reprint his story from last week. He does this in our hope that creating awareness will lower the amount of people that fall victim to the scamming epidemic that is plaguing Australians with a current focus on local residents of Baw Baw and Gippsland. Scamming cost Australians upwards of an estimated $3,000,000,000* each year…. and a quite a few of those zeros are coming from Gippsland residents. Fred’s experience it recorded as follows in his own words: “COMPUTER SCAM “On Tuesday 19th September 2017, I received a phone call to inform me that one of our computers (my wife’s) had been…
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Troubleshooting Guide for your ADSL internet
Problems with ADSL Internet connections can be frustrating for the end user. Is it my modem? Is it the service supplier? or …… is it my computer at fault? To help you help yourself, we have provided the following self help guide; Left click to read, or right click to download: Troubleshooting ADSL Internet Modems Post image by Someone’s Moving Castle, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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A scammer survival story from the community
This very informative story was handed to me by a fellow Gippslandian with permission to publish unedited in the hopes that it helps others. Many thanks to Loris B. Her story: “How I got our bank accounts hacked by a scammer I was asked by Jon to jot down my experience with banking hacking. I guess it was my own stupidity that caused it. You would also have to know my background, the fact that I am now in my 80s, and the amount of stress I am living under at the moment, to realise why I let it happen. But that’s another story. I have a feeling…
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Telephone scammers – What to do
We hear on the news frequently about one person or anther being scammed out of tens of thousands of dollars and sometimes even hundreds of thousands. Unfortunately in my experience it’s not just in the news, it is very common in our local area, but usually lower amounts… usually three to ten thousand dollars at a time. But a little bit of community awareness, we can reduce these occurrences. Is it a scammer? If you received a “cold call”. Don’t take the bait, telephone scammers are always finding new and inventive ways to trick you into doing things that you would not normally do. If the caller insists they…
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Site under revamp
Hi all. You may notice a few glitches here and there on the website. Please be patient. We are currently adding a few features, and will let you know here when we are done. Stay tuned!
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Critical Alert: Wannacry Ransomware; A simple question: Am I at risk?
Wannacry Ransomware; A simple question: Am I at risk? The non-technical answer is Yes…. If your using a Windows based computer with the updates turned off or a non supported windows edition such as XP, or Vista. If you are not using anti-virus /anti-malware with ransom-ware protection (ie QuickHeal or Commercial edition Malwarebytes (not both)) If you have poor Internet and/or your windows updates are late to arrive (about a month late) but only, if combined with with following: If you use remote access / screen connect software on your computer If you are using computers that network together to share files with each other If you have had hacker/virus/malware attack on your…
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Updates and More Updates – When will it end?
No matter what modern computer system we use, whether it be Mac, IOS, Android, Windows or Linux they are always updating. Why? The manufacturers keep telling us the primary reasons are: Security patches and bug fixes New features and continual improvements And my personal favorite: More security patches and bug fixes for the problems introduced in the new features and continual improvements. In theory updates should be seamless and improve our products, however in the real world it can be a huge inconvenience to the computer end user. Windows 10 is no exception, it looooooves to update, and perhaps more than any other alternative. Dramatic slowdowns and seemingly random resets can occur especially for those that…
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Ransomware – The statistics are in, and they are higher than you might think!
Think your safe? Think again. Numbers don’t lie.
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